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TIL there’s been a treaty that bans controlling the weather as a weapon of war since 1978.

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6E5wX TIL about Victor Sibson, who killed his girlfriend in a botched suicide attempt. The bullet passed through his head, and into her chest, killing her. He survived the attempt and now faces 2nd degree murder charges and life in prison.
8aMRV TIL that in the 1920s banks regulated how women could dress because a mother complained that her son did business with a woman who was 'illegally attractive'
y66a TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
PYeog TIL if you get a zebrafish drunk, it convinces the other sober fish to follow it around.
vPpeB TIL about The Lady Killer, which was the biggest box office bomb ever in Indian Cinema. It had a budget of 45 crore rupees (53M USD) and grossed only 70000 rupees (8.3k USD